SpaceX’s plans to launch its Starship–Super Heavy two-stage rocket 44 times a year from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida have come under fire from its two biggest rivals: United Launch Alliance (ULA) and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin. The Spaceship vehicle is the world’s largest rocket. Its two stages are SpaceX’s Super Heavy booster rocket … Read more
An image of the cyanobacterium Tolypothrix. Source: Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0 The human body’s inability to break down sucralose, an artificial sweetener found in many low-calorie food and beverage products, has been well established by scientific research. The compound is so stable that it escapes wastewater treatment and finds its way into drinking water … Read more
Two of Mallorca and Spain’s biggest tourist markets, Britain and Germany, will have to pay extra for the privilege of flying to destinations such as the Balearic Islands. Lufthansa will add an environmental surcharge of up to 72 euros to fares, the airline announced on Tuesday, joining at least one European competitor as the industry … Read more
Airlines charge all kinds of taxes and fees on tickets, some of which are government-imposed and others imposed by the airline. One of Europe’s largest airline groups will soon add a new environmental surcharge to tickets, which is sure to be controversial. Details of Lufthansa’s new environmental ticket surcharge For tickets issued from June 26, … Read more
The Lufthansa Group introduces an environmental cost surcharge. The surcharge is intended to cover part of the steadily rising additional costs resulting from legal environmental requirements. These include the statutory blending quota of initially two percent for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for departures from European Union (EU) countries from January 1, 2025, adjustments to the … Read more
SpaceX officials hope to soon launch and land massive 450-foot Starship-Super Heavy rockets up to 44 times a year at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. But Susan Palma, a 40-year-old Titusville resident, fears that further development at the Cape risks further disrupting the natural water flow and salinity of the endangered Indian River Lagoon. She attended … Read more